My 3rd cellphone in a row, the USB port is clogged again and I can barely plug anything in it. My laptop charger is the only thing that holds (barely).
All mechanical cleaning is useless (I've tried compressed air, interdental brushes of all kinds, small needles, etc.).
The first phone had a micro USB, and I replaced the clogged plug with a new one (until it happened again) which did not cost much but took days.
I assumed this would not happen with #USBC, but it still does. What do I do?
Ein neues Ladegerät soll angeschafft werden. Eines, welches gleich mehrere Geräte mit Strom versorgen kann und dies am besten nicht langsam. Ein Netzteil zu finden, welchen diesen Ansprüchen nachkommt, ist leicht. Hersteller von Ladegeräten mit einem oder mehreren USB-C und / oder USB-A Anschlüssen gibt es beinahe wie Sand am Meer…
Schluss mit dem Kabelsalat: Zum Ende des Jahres wird USB-C das Standard-Ladekabel. Dafür hat der Bundesrat heute den Weg frei gemacht. Übrigens: Ab 2026 auch für Laptops.
Do YOU have experience designing #usb3 or #usbC circuits? How about implementing I²S audio?
I'd love to chat, and/or work together on an #openSource, budget-friendly, and VERY high quality (24bit/192K) 8 channel #usbAudioInterface.
I'm basing the front-end on the incredible differential instrumentation amplifier #INA217 by #burrBrown. We're talkin' #midas competition #preamps into a BB #adc 😎.
I could really use help with the usb implementation.
The Internet is awash with speculation and non-technical answers to this question, so I’ll ask you nerds:
What are the actual technical requirements for a USB-C to HDMI adapter for the Nintendo Switch?
Most forums/comment sections/etc. have people just saying, “well I used this and it worked,” or “I used this and it didn’t,” but there has to be an actual specification that the Switch requires for this… right??
AirPods Max mit USB-C? Ken Pillonel machts möglich
Ken Pillonel hat bereits ein iPhone X und ein AirPods Pro-Case mit USB-C ausgestattet. Ken, Schweizer freiberuflicher Hardware-Prototyping-Berater mit Master-Abschluss in Robotik, tüftelt bekanntlich gerne und nimmt sich fleissig neue USB-C-Projekte vor. AirPods Max wurden 2020 eingeführt. Damals wie heute sind diese fantastischen Kopfhör…
Just realizing now that the transition from using my Razer Blade Stealth as my laptop to my Steam Deck was partially made seamless thanks to USB-PD!
Am totally able to re-use the same charger and carry on as I did before, just with a big pouch instead a simple laptop in a sleeve.
It's not the original OEM charger since that hardwired cable on that started to fry and fail while I was traveling, but that just goes to show how accessible third-party options are. ✨
I’d lightweight been considering trying an #iPhone once a few of my nits were solved—and #Apple appeared to be systematically addressing them over the years:
But now they’re throwing a monumental tantrum and behaving in the most entitled, anti-consumer way possible—if you wrote it into a fictional plot, you’d get dragged for being unrealistically over the top!
So I’ve again lost interest. Apple can keep poisoning their walled garden; it doesn’t affect me. 🤷
I genuinely think that USB-C might be the defining feature of the 21st century. A little port which is cheap enough to add to the most trivial of devices, and that can carry an impressive amount of power and data. All of my gadgets have it - phone, eReader, headphones, laptop, thermal printer, battery, games console - and now, my mosquito bite zapper!
It's smaller than a thumb-drive, fits on a key-ring, and has no moving parts. Weighs practically nothing either. Perfect for flinging in your beach bag.
The science is simple. Localised hyperthermia stops pain. So you plug it into your phone, the app automatically opens, dial your preferred setting, and wait a moment for the device to heat up. Then you push it against the bite, wait a few seconds, and the pain stops. That's it.
The app is surprisingly good! It's well laid out, translated properly, easy to use, and doesn't seem to send back personal data. Would it be nice if it were open source? Sure - and I'm sure the protocol isn't that hard; it's literally heating an element and flashing an LED.
But that absolute joy is that, because it's USB-C, it will work on any Android device. Plug it in to your Android based eReader if you like. Same with your tablet and phone. I didn't need to remember to bring anything special to the beach - all my gadgets worked with it.
I'm not going to show you photos of my disgustingly bitten feet - but I can tell you that the (mild) pain of 10 seconds heat completely stopped the itching. If you're prone to bites - and don't want to spray noxious chemicals everywhere - this is brilliant.
Trying to live the single-(usbc)-cable-dream at work as well by going through my old thinkpad dock: mac to dock via usbc, dock to Delly U2713HM DisplayPort. However, DP to DP connection from dock to old Dell U2713HM display only sometimes flickers on and often not. usbc to DP from dock is solid. DP-DP cable is extremely sus. Work has ordered new DP-DP cable and I'm crossing my fingers. Singel cable life is fun.
Again discovered how unbelievably badly macOS renders fonts on resolutions that Apple believes to be too low, in this case my Dell Ultrasharp 27" at 2560x1440 aka QHD at work. Microsoft and Windows do an absolutely great job on exactly the same hardware, and fonts look great.
BTW, although macOS does marginally better on my 32" 4K Dell IPS display at home, here Windows even further increases its font rendering dominance with fractional scaling and cleartype.
As is often the case with Apple, there is a (paid) third-party software tool that works around their attempts to improve matters, namely BetterDisplay: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay
As I wrote in my notes some years ago when this became apparent, this is just the company's philosophy. They want to control all the hardware. They will begrudgingly let you use some third party displays, but they pick their battles to look good. In this case, it does feel quite user-hostile.
Ran into a M1-specific bug in the ruff vscode extension, where the arm64 extension build bundles the x86_64 ruff binary. Worked-around, and then reported at https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-vscode/issues/364
I've been looking at Apple's MLX machine learning / array framework for Apple Silicon https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx as well as at CoreML because I'm curious whether this will give me faster Jina AI embeddings inference on the M1 than I'm currently getting with the PyTorch MPS backend, which is muuuuuch slower on this M1 Pro 10C / 16C GPU / 16C neural than PyTorch CUDA on my oooold GeForce RTX2070 with 8GB.
Mit dem iPhone 15 und iPhone 15 Plus haben die diesjährigen Basis-iPhones einen grossen technischen Sprung gemacht. Das Gerät bereitet tagtäglich Freude, denn alle wirklich wichtigen Features, die ein iPhone haben muss*, sind mit dabei. Im letzten Jahr habe ich im Review zum iPhone 14 das Gerät als stilles Update beschrieben. 2023 lässt e…